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January 19, 2023
— the private equity firm who bought it in 2020 is racing to the bottom with automated content farming #
— killed by an unannounced and undocumented policy change from a company no developer should ever trust again #
— “Cartoon Dynamo (Pat. 2023)” #
— connecting with others, side hustles, exposing inhumane conditions, and taking Harvard’s free online comp sci classes via @jank0 #
January 18, 2023
— I love that both models are just as confused about what happened on Lost’s later seasons as I am #
January 17, 2023
— Matt Round fused the Hampster Dance with Space Invaders, with the Cuban Boys’ remix used by permission #
— all links and posts are now automatically posted, just follow @[email protected] #
— separate from the class action lawsuit led by three artists announced a few days ago #
— outstanding reporting covering a truly terrible acquisition; love the “Elon net worth-o-meter” #
— charming reimagining of an RSS reader as a little garden; Waxy is the eyeglasses #
January 13, 2023
— celebrating Trogdor the Burninator’s 20th birthday; the original game is playable again with Flash emulation #
— new daily game to spot typos in a news story every day as fast as possible via b3ta #
— “When a work gets as big as this has, is it still yours?” via Garbage Day #
— expect to see a whole lot more of this #
January 12, 2023
— indexing 18 million memes with iOS’s Vision API was cheaper than paid cloud OCR services #
January 11, 2023
— one of my all-time favorite musicians, I’m absolutely crushed #
January 10, 2023
— they aren’t releasing the code because of the obvious potential for misuse, but the samples are wild #
January 9, 2023
— remarkable 2016 article about a woman who self-diagnosed her rare genetic mutation and spotted it in others #
— it’s patched now, but unclear how long the dead-simple security lapse existed via @briankrebs #
— with Dark Sky shuttered, here’s a clean alternative built on Pirate Weather, a free and open compatible API #
— “Black people were 24% of those killed last year, while making up only 13% of the population” via jwz #
January 6, 2023
— surprising number of small but useful services for only $20/year, made by a single dev #
— made with Dittytoy, a simple Javascript API for making generative music online #
— sadly, his “OfficeSpace project” didn’t try to transfer rounded down fractions of a penny #
— Bert Fan upgraded Creative Labs’ classic 1991 speech synthesis chatbot that shipped with Sound Blaster cards #
— a London furniture conservator suggested dots, lines, and symbols denote lunar months for tracking animal life cycles, making it the earliest writing in human history #
— a large language model with text-to-speech output interacts with users in chat, while a separate AI plays games like Minecraft and osu via Garbage Day #
January 5, 2023
— website that tells you how many people are also looking at it, when they leave, and that’s it via Today in Tabs #
January 4, 2023
— they cite the pandemic, but also went through a painful acquisition breakup in 2020 #
— her six-album run from 1970-1976 is basically flawless via openculture.com #
January 3, 2023
— easily capable of outposting every human on earth, ChatGPT and LLMs like it will flood the web with a neverending tsunami of SEO bullshit #
— Brian Moore made a device that only lets you type “lol” if you’re actually laughing #
January 2, 2023
— excellent site promoting Marcin Wichary’s upcoming book about keyboards; don’t miss the interactive 3D view at the top #
— the only manual that references The Dukes of Hazzard, meatloaf, and the territorial imperatives of trumpeter swans #
— Maciej Ceglowski returns from hiatus with the first in a series on why sending humans to Mars is a bad idea #
January 1, 2023
— he hired a historical researcher to uncover the real history of a subject he covered in 2021 #
— Sherlock Holmes, Metropolis, The Jazz Singer, Puttin’ on the Ritz, My Blue Heaven, and so much more #
December 31, 2022
— even if I never implement it, I love interactive explainers like these that explain how something’s made via Simon Willison #
— ridiculous pay-what-you-like game for Windows/Mac/Linux that’s like QWOP attempting a jewelry heist #
December 30, 2022
— Catherynne M. Valente penned a barnburner about the cycle of value extraction and destruction of popular online social platforms #
— “the dreams of the 90s are alive in the Fediverse” #
— fascinating and funny process video from the very talented Cat Graffam #
December 29, 2022
— he attributes it to the new CEO’s decision to drop paid placement deals and give more control to the stores #
— a wordless, serene 90-minute compilation of going off the grid in a Swedish forest, reminiscent of Primitive Technology‘s videos via MetaFilter #
— very entertaining video documenting a 16-year-long project to run the length of every street in Pittsburgh, over 3,600 miles #
— no screeners have leaked this awards season, unconfirmed rumors of a pirate group bust are swirling #
December 28, 2022
— The Verge rounds up reactions to their deceptive statement, including one from 1Password’s security architect #
— entertaining post explaining creative techniques for getting GPT-3 to leak its source prompts via Simon Willison #
— “Andy is a mostly dog name” via @thepuddingmail #
— building on decentralized protocols makes the network more resilient than any centralized platform #
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